Betty
Mr. Davis
A Teacher's Guide to Betty's Brain
- Introduction
Learning About the Science Topic
- Learning About the Science Topic
- Finding Causal Relationships in Text Passages
- Standard Presentation
- If-Then Presentation
- Then-If Presentation
- Transformation
- Thinking About Pronouns
- Causes of Increase and Decrease
- Thinking About the Situation
- The Passive Voice
- When the Source Concept Decreases
- Dealing with Categories
Teaching Your Student
- Teaching Your Student
- Answering Questions with a Single Causal Relation
- Answering Questions with a Chain of Causal Relations
- Answering Questions with Multiple Chains
Making Sure Your Student Understands
- Making Sure Your Student Understands
- Asking Your Student to Answer Cause-and-Effect Questions
- Using Quizzes to Check Your Student's Understanding
- Asking Mr. Davis to Grade Specific Questions
- Marking Relations as Being Correct
Teaching Tips from the Experts
- Teaching Tips from the Experts
- Tip #1: Make sure you're teaching your student the information she needs to know
- Tip #2: Be Careful About Shortcut Relations
- Tip #3: Use quiz results to mark relations as being correct
- Tip #4: Use quiz results to figure out which relations are wrong
- Tip #5: Teach your student one section at a time
- Tip #6: Knowing what to do after a quiz
- Tip #7: What to do with “Right so Far” answers
- Tip #8: Knowing When to Quiz